It's a great joy that Kim Taeyeon's solo title song has progressed, and her solo has been preparing for a few months ago. In fact, Ji Jingyuan himself is quite anxious after such a long delay, although there are still a few months before the expected return time in the project, but the production of a mini album requires a lot of work.

It takes a lot of time to set the style and theme, choose songs, write lyrics, make recordings, shoot music videos and pictorials, make albums, promote in advance, and so on, and Ji Jingyuan's own work and schedule are also very busy, at least recently, he can't put all his energy on it.

So it's better to prepare an album as early as possible.

After the title song is released, the progress can be accelerated all of a sudden, and when the demo is recorded for Lee so-man to listen to and discuss and confirm at the meeting, if there is no problem, wait for Kim Taeyeon's words to be made, and then improve the arrangement, and then start recording.

Speaking of which, Ji Kyung-won originally wanted to try some songs about "Infinite Challenge Song Festival" today, but he didn't expect that the original purpose had not made any progress at all, but he accidentally got half of Kim Tae-yeon's title song, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

After all, the songs of the song festival are not in a hurry now, and the quality requirements for the songs of this variety show itself are not very high, the style does not matter, and the arrangement is not so refined.

In order to participate in this infinite challenge, Chi Jingyuan also watched the song festival in previous years, although many of the songs in it are not lacking in flash of inspiration, but to be honest, there are actually many of them are quite ordinary, after all, the guests are required to make the songs in a short period of time, and they don't have time to polish them for you.

Being able to occupy the top of the list and cause such a big response is more due to the popularity of the show itself and the popularity of the guests.

Comparatively speaking, for Ji Kyung-won, the importance of the ballad festival song is far less important than Kim Taeyeon's solo title song, after all, this is the first time he has tried to write a title song for someone other than EXO and serve as a producer.

And as a very close relative, Nuna, Kim Taeyeon's optimism and trust in him also moved Ji Kyung-won, as a relative and producer, he naturally wanted to hand over a satisfactory answer sheet, and tried his best to make this sister's first solo result in eight years of debut.

After making a breakthrough, Ji Jingyuan focused on completing the song and arrangement, and as for the song festival, let's wait for the next time their group records what to say

The style hasn't been decided yet.

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Today is June 30th, and all EXO members are in the lounge backstage of the SM Town Coex Center, and a press conference about the second album of EXO "Exo-L" will be held in the front hall.

The second album of EXO includes all eight songs from the previously released four single albums "E", "X", "O", and "L", and also adds two new tracks, the lyrical "If You" and the rhythmic dance song "EXODUS".

A total of ten songs make up this album "EXO-L", which has not yet been released, and has been characterized by many insiders, professional musicians, fans and passers-by as the official second album of God's specialty.

The album's song configuration is extravagant, with four singles featuring four title tracks of their own.

The first "Call Me Baby" swept through January, and the popularity exploded, and the styling of many of the members is still talked about by fans to this day, this song is poisoned by the melody, and it really makes the pop, and the most important handsomeness and fashion for idol.

"Spring Day" has been unexpectedly strong after the counterattack, and it is still at the top of the music list after a few months, and the number of daily independent listeners is much higher than that of those boy groups that have just returned recently, which has greatly improved the reputation of EXO as a boy group in the hearts of the public.

"LHT" is a little weaker than the other title songs, but the dance music with a new and strong rhythm and pleasing choreography, a very youthful feeling, an enthusiastic stage shape and style, and an eye-catching American preppy style and football concept, is still a popular song above the standard.

At the same time, the included "Orientation Sniper" completely covered the title song as a non-main hit in terms of popularity and results, and its popularity among the audience groups mainly composed of students and young people, the music source results were unexpectedly good, and it also created the hot word 'Orientation Sniper', which is very popular among young couples today.

Not to mention this month's "Boy With Luv", the popularity and popularity of the first few times have exploded, and within one day of its release, it has almost broken all the data records of the boy group, and the music list has also suppressed the equally excellent "BangBangBang".

It also made a breakthrough in the single hit 100 on the US B chart, creating the best result of the Peninsula idol group, and various influences have begun to gradually transcend the song itself, which has also made onlookers, and even BIGBANG's own fans have a concept of victory and defeat in the hearts of the two top boy groups.

Nowadays, how many people in the peninsula, and even many people in Asia, who like kpop, still don't hum 'oh mymymy' when they hear the music play?

Other included songs, including "El Dorado" and "Butterfly", are also well-made, high-quality tracks that many people like, their respective music source results are very good, and they also have live stages out of the circle.

The two newly added songs, "If You" is a lyrical song that Chi Jingyuan likes very much, and it sounds very feeling under the interpretation of the four lead singers.

And "EXODUS" competed with "Call Me Baby" for the title song of the first "E" album at that time.

The ten songs on the whole album, more than half of them are standard level boutique songs, and the other included songs are not inferior to the main songs too much, but also have their own characteristics, the music quality of this album makes other boy groups see, I don't know how envious and jealous it should be, you must know that in the idol group of kpop, every time you return to all resources, the most important thing is the song resources.

It's not even those small groups, even within the SM company, such as SJ, SHINEE, and even Girls' Generation will be very red when they see it, and they don't know how to discuss it in private.

If you want to talk about the shortcomings, it should be to complete the return mode of releasing songs month by month for four months, resulting in different and unified song styles throughout the album, which can be said to be a bit mixed.

This may have some impact on some listeners, but most fans and passers-by don't care about these things, and the vast majority of people only care about whether the song is good or not.

Now there is still a day before the official release of the second album and the release of the sound source, but the first four single albums have done enough foreshadowing, and the current popularity of exo and the sense of anticipation of fans for their albums can be called unparalleled, and there is no need to do too much in terms of publicity, this time the company is more focused on promoting sales.

After all, although the quality of the album is against the sky, most of the songs in it have been released in the end, and the freshness is much lower in comparison.

Ji Jingyuan was sitting in the corner of the lounge at this time, casually taking out a copy of the album piled up on the table in front of him, and looking through it in his hand.

Although the official second album has not yet been officially released, they insiders have already got the goods, because there will be a lot of activities such as lottery and signing to give back to fans to promote sales in the past few days, and they will just take the time to sign their names on the album and give it to fans as a gift when the time comes.

This time, the regular second album of EXO has changed the way it has returned several times before, and in addition to the same team cover as before, it has launched a 'single cover' of all members for the first time.

The so-called 'single cover' is a 'separate cover version' that is printed on the physical album with the members' own separate photos as the cover.

This time, the album cover of "exo-l" is themed on gold and silver, with Chinese version and Korean version, the Chinese version is a silver cover, and the Korean version is a gold cover, with a single cover and a group cover for each of the nine members of EXO, and all the different versions of the album add up to a total of twenty.

According to the development law of most idol groups on the peninsula, as the group becomes more and more popular and popular, the number of members will become more and more.

A long time ago, EXO's fans,Or the only fans of the members of the more popular ones have been calling for SM to release a single version of the album.,It's just that SM hasn't opened a single cover before.,And this time it's finally in line with the fans' wishes to open the album single.,A few days ago, when the pre-sale channel was opened,,It caused a lot of fans to cheer.,Some generous meals even directly bought more than a dozen copies of the single album of their favorite members.,That enthusiasm simply scared SM people.。

To some extent, the opening of singles will boost the sales of the album, but to be honest, it is not all good, and the first thing is that the gap in popularity within the team has become more intuitive.

EXO is not a boy group with relatively average popularity, and its popularity and popularity can be as high as Ji Kyungwon, the top of the team, and there is also a popularity line composed of several popular members such as Oh Se-hoon and Park Chanyeol.

But in the same way, there are also members who are at the back and bottom of the popularity, and they are very different from the members at the top.

In the past, although everyone's personal resources were more or less, the gap was not very large, and the popularity of such a thing was more abstract, even if the difference was huge, but if you didn't specifically look for some relevant data, you can't see it.

But as soon as this kind of single-cover album is opened, whoever sells more and who sells less will become particularly clear, intuitive, and cruel.

Pre-sale is open to the present, in addition to the group seal that still accounts for the majority of the group, the sales gap between the first place and the next few places in a single envelope is several times or even dozens of times, which is still the company's special set up 'single envelope not single card', that is, the cover is personal, but in the case of a small card, otherwise the gap is estimated to be even greater.

Although on the surface, many members are accustomed to the level of popularity, but such a huge gap will inevitably make these less popular members panic and uncomfortable.

But there is no way, the competition in the Peninsula song industry is so fierce, in addition to the competition with the outside world, the same is true within the group.

In the past two days, after the pre-sale data came out, Ji Jingyuan faintly felt that the atmosphere in the team had changed somewhat, although no one would take the initiative to show off or be jealous, but sometimes words and eyes would still become subtle.

As soon as he thought of this, while feeling helpless, he couldn't help but admire Yun'er's predecessors very much.

Girls' Generation is also a combination with a big difference in popularity between the head and the end.

Yun'er's predecessors were not only one of the most popular in the team in the years when they were the most popular, but the gap between them and the back of several crane tails was very large, and at the same time, there were various film and television resources, and Chi Jingyuan, who had good resources, was a little envious.

And in those two years, every time she was interviewed and participated in the show, when she talked about topics and questions about her popularity, she was always very humble and embarrassed, and she always hung on her lips, and the most she said was:

'Popularity has seasons'.

Tsk, this emotional intelligence.

Although those back sisters will not increase their popularity because of this, they will at least feel better.

Ji Jingyuan is now going to start learning from Yun'er's predecessors.

Dispelling some complicated thoughts in his heart, Ji Jingyuan shook his head and looked at the single album of himself in his hand.

In the cover, he is wearing a pure white plain shirt, his eyes are calm, his expression is calm, he tilts his head slightly to the left in front of the camera, the overall black and white color scheme and the silver coating of the album make the whole cover photo very natural and handsome At the same time, the overall texture and style are also very strong, and it looks very feeling.

At the bottom of the cover is the characters 'exo-l' written in a matchstick-like font, and the back is covered with a large, very designed, exo logo, which forms the cover of this regular second series.

Ji Jingyuan's single envelope in Chinese and Korean is the best among all the pre-sale versions, except for the takeaway of the group seal.

Holding his single album and looking at it for a while, looking at Chi Jingyuan remembered something, he glanced around, and then picked out a few albums from the pile of albums in front of him, looked left and right, took out four group albums, and stood up from the stool.

"Sign me."

He put several albums in his hand in front of Wu Shixun and gestured with his finger.

"Oh."

Wu Shixun, who was already signing his album, nodded, didn't ask, picked up the oil-based pen and signed the album.

"Sign smaller, there are other people's." Seeing that Wu Shixun directly pulled a long black line on the cover with a big grin, Chi Jingyuan immediately reminded him.

"Everybody's signed, what are you going to do?" Oh Se-hoon signed all the albums and asked casually.

"Give it away."

Ji Jingyuan picked up the album in response to a roar, patted him on the shoulder, and then walked to the next member's position, walked around in turn and got the signatures of the other members, returned to his seat, took two more of his own leaflets, and began to sign his name.

Then he found a bag and wrapped up all the albums, stopped when he stuffed all the albums into the bag, and after thinking about it for two seconds, he took out a note from the side, took an oil-based pen and began to write:

"To. Rui Yan

Everything will be fine, may you find that light in your heart, or try to be the light to illuminate others, fighting! (Come on)"

When it came time to write the payment, Chi Jingyuan had just written a 'y', but he quickly crossed out this letter and added his big name 'Chi Jingyuan'.

After sticking the to tag on the album and wrapping it, Ji Jingyuan took a long breath and put the package next to him, and began to sign other albums.

If the number of autographs is small, I enjoy it, and I have a sense of accomplishment that I have become a star and am sought after.

But if you sign too much, it's like this pile of albums full of albums, and that's a kind of torment.

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"We all know that as of noon, the number of pre-sales of the official second album of EXO "EXO-L" this time has approached 800,000, what do you think about this number?"

Because of the popularity and popularity of EXO today, there are a lot of memories at this album conference, and after the members introduced the content of this regular album, the style of the songs, and some of the experiences and difficulties in preparing the album, they entered the question time, and many people in the audience asked various questions about the album to the members of Nine Lives on stage.

"I was actually really surprised when I saw it."

Ji Jingyuan, who was asked, sat a little to the left in the middle, holding the microphone and answering with a smile in front of the camera, with a flattered expression on his face: "Actually, I didn't expect to reach this number before, including the members, after all, I have released several singles before, and the source of the song has been released...... I really appreciate the support of XO and we will work harder to become a better EXO, Kang Sanmida. ”

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Ji Jingyuan said very sincerely, and he was indeed very surprised by this sales

Since the pre-sale channel opened a few days ago, in just over three days, the pre-sale number of all versions combined has been close to 800,000, and there are still nearly ten hours to go on sale, and it will definitely go up a little bit by then.

This number also frightened countless people in the circle, you must know that this official album is a regular album that most of the songs have already been released.

"Do you have any expectations for this sales now?"

"Well, there's no expectation, it's already pretty good."

Chi Jingyuan smiled and waved his hand, not thirsting for more.

In fact, when their members saw this pre-sale figure and discussed it privately, they very much hoped to achieve more than one million sales in a single monopoly this time.

Although EXO has completed this achievement in the first two years, it has only reached this number through the accumulation of the first and subsequent phases, although it is also a million, but the gold content will be a little weaker.

They really haven't done it in a million alone, and the rest of the music world is not to mention it, and now only EXO can look forward to completing this achievement a little.

"Which of the 10 songs on this album do the members like the most?"

"Boy with Luv, because it's very popular, haha......"

"I love Call Me Baby, and I love the look in it."

“……”

"What about Yuan?"

"I like it all, haha...... If I had to pick one, I'd go with "If You", which hasn't been released yet, I love the melody, the vibe, and the feeling of the song. ”

"Hahaha, then I'll choose "exodus", everyone must remember to listen to it tonight."

"Please look forward to the album released by EXO tonight, "EXO-L", Consang Mida!"

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At twelve o'clock in the evening, SM released ten songs from the second album of EXO on time, including all the sound sources including several remix versions, and all the songs that have fallen in the rankings or fallen out of the list have also returned to the list.